Qualification details

Employability Skill 

Industry/enterprise requirements for this qualification include: 

Communication

• Understanding work and organisational instructions
• Understanding input from specialist personnel and technical representatives
• Providing guidance to others and describing clearly faults, problems and spares requirements
• Negotiating with other team members or supervisors regarding timing and progress of work activities and access to sections of the aircraft, or to equipment
• Understanding and interpreting regulations, procedures, instructions and maintenance publications
• Completing maintenance documentation and component tags
• Interpreting wiring diagrams and system schematics, and reading drawings relating to maintenance activities
• Using computers to obtain maintenance data and complete documentation
• Networking with other team members regarding work planning and execution

Teamwork

• Performing tasks as an individual while being responsive to supervisors and allowing for relevant human factors
• Working effectively with others who may be of different ages, gender, race, religion and political persuasion
• Assisting other team members with tasks and providing advice on work processes and troubleshooting

Problem solving

• Identifying problems in a timely manner and developing practical solutions to maintenance problems not fully covered by maintenance data
• Proposing solutions to problems as modifications or amendments to specified maintenance processes
• Constantly reviewing problem solving skills and ability to effectively apply competencies to solve problems within the limits permitted by regulatory and organisational guidelines
• Responding to emergencies or accidents in accordance with regulatory and organisational requirements
• Using mathematical techniques to relate test results to system or component performance and to convert values between systems of measurement

Initiative and enterprise

• Adapting to new situations that arise as a consequence of regulatory changes, revised maintenance data, practices and procedures
• Varying work practices and behaviour as a result of performance feedback from peers and supervisors
• Evaluating ideas to ensure that technical and regulatory aspects have been fully covered before proposing action that may result in modifications or changes to work processes
• Applying human factors to avoid maintenance errors and maintain quality standards
• Adapting competencies to the performance of a wide range of maintenance tasks
• Contributing to a process of continuous improvement and a willingness to support and participate in the effective introduction of new work practices

Planning and organising

• Clarifying task objectives and required outcomes through discussion with supervisors and other team members
• Monitoring the time taken to complete tasks against team requirements or targets provided by supervisors
• Collecting, analysing and organising information relating to assigned maintenance tasks and confirming the purpose and required work outcomes
• Identifying the extent of impact on assigned work of changes in procedures, work instructions or regulatory requirements

Self-management

• Accepting responsibility for managing individual workload to meet target completion times or fit in with team milestones
• Assessing personal knowledge and skills with the aid of the self-assessment work sheets in the Log of Industrial Experience and Achievement and preparing for competency assessments
• Actively seeking opportunities to develop competencies and to apply them across a range of tasks and monitoring performance using indicators such as the extent of oversight exercised by supervisors
• Identifying career paths and training opportunities that will assist in attaining career goals

Learning

• Taking advantage of learning opportunities that arise through training courses provided by the organisation or external providers and through mentoring and on-job training
• Adapting competencies to accommodate new ideas and techniques
• Using feedback from supervisors and peers to identify ways in which competence can be improved
• Mentoring new or more junior personnel
• Interpreting units of competency and applying them to attainment of identified career goals

Technology

• Repairing aircraft metal structure, selecting and using tools and support equipment
• Repairing aircraft composite structure, selecting and using tools and support equipment
• Determining the causes of aircraft structural damage
• Removing and installing aircraft system components
• Storing and caring for components, parts, tools, test equipment and support equipment
• Amending various forms of maintenance data
• Using computers and microfiche to obtain maintenance data and using computers to complete documentation

Unit code 

Unit title 

Prerequisites 

MEA101B

Interpret occupational health and safety practices in aviation maintenance

Nil

MEA103B

Plan and organise aviation maintenance work activities

MEA101B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B

MEA105C

Apply quality standards applicable to aviation maintenance processes

MEA101B, MEA107B

MEA107B

Interpret and use aviation maintenance industry manuals and specifications

Nil

MEA108B

Complete aviation maintenance industry documentation

MEA105C

MEA109B

Perform basic hand skills, standard trade practices and fundamentals in aviation maintenance

MEA105C, MEA108B

MEA118A

Conduct self in the aviation maintenance environment

Nil

MEA302C

Remove and install aircraft hydro-mechanical and landing gear system components

MEA101B, MEA103B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B, MEA109B

MEA303D

Remove and install aircraft pneumatic system components

MEA101B, MEA103B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B, MEA109B

MEA327B

Fabricate and/or repair aircraft mechanical components or parts

MEA101B, MEA103B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B, MEA109B

MEA401C

Inspect aircraft structures

MEA101B, MEA103B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B, MEA109B

MEA420A

Fabricate basic structural components for aircraft

MEA101B, MEA103B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B, MEA109B

MEA421A

Fabricate advanced structural components for aircraft

MEA101B, MEA103B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B, MEA109B

MEA422A

Repair/modify aircraft metal structure

MEA401C

MEA423A

Aircraft structure major disassembly and reassembly

MEA401C

MSAENV272B

Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices

Nil

Unit code 

Unit title 

Prerequisites 

Unit selection guidelines 

MEA304C

Remove and install non-pressurised aircraft structural and non-structural components

MEA302C

Take this unit or MEA317C

MEA305C

Remove and install aircraft fixed wing flight control system components

MEA302C

Take this unit or MEA308C

MEA308C

Remove and install rotary wing rotor and flight control system components

MEA302C

Alternate to MEA305C

MEA317C

Remove and install pressurised aircraft structural and non-structural components

MEA302C

MEA303D

Alternate to MEA304C

MEA367A

Repair/modify aircraft composite structure using cold bonding

MEA401C or MEA339C or

MEA363B

Take this unit or MEA405B

MEA405B

Repair/modify aircraft composite material structure/components

MEA401C

Alternate to MEA367A

MEA425A

Perform bolted composite skin repairs

MEA401C or MEA339D or MEA363C